Ammonia-oxidizing archaea as main drivers of nitrification in cold-water sponges

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 909-923

  Radax, Regina ^a   Hoffmann, Friederike ^b,c,d   Rapp, Hans Tore ^b,c   Leininger, Sven ^b,e   Schleper, Christa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c Uni Research AS   (Norway)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; NITRATE; NITRITE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ANIMAL; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITRIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPONGE (PORIFERA);

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BASE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; NITRIFICATION; NITRITES; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PORIFERA;

ANTHO DICHOTOMA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLADOCROCE VENTILABRUM; GEODIA; GEODIA BARRETTI; NITROSPIRA; TENTORIUM (SPONGE); TENTORIUM SEMISUBERITES;

EID: 84859423097     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02661.x     Document Type: Article

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